Proust's Overcoat

Name: Proust's Overcoat
Brand: Granta Books
SKU: 9781846272721
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The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust

Автор: Lorenza Foschini

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Издател: Granta Books

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The story of the overcoat begins with a chance meeting - between an obsessive bibliophile, Jacques G...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Lorenza Foschini

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2011

страници

144

EAN

9781846272721

ISBN

1846272726

Enbook ID

04415988

Издател

Granta Books

Теглоt

112

Размери

131 x 197 x 10

Пълно описание

The story of the overcoat begins with a chance meeting - between an obsessive bibliophile, Jacques Guerin, the head of a French perfume house, and his physician, Dr Robert Proust, brother of the late writer. Glimpsing the possibility of adding to his collection, Guerin stumbles into a tense and tangled relationship with the novelist's family who, embarrassed by Proust's writings and his homosexuality, are in the process of destroying the mountain of notebooks, letters and manuscripts they had inherited. Little by little, over decades, Guerin acquires Marcel's remaining personal effects, including - eventually - the relic he had come to covet more than any other: the moth-eaten otter-lined overcoat Proust had worn every day and used as a blanket every night while writing in bed. Like the novelist's second skin, this coat was as close as Guerin could ever come to touching Proust himself: it was the jewel of his collection.

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